I have a website on my server, just one css page i wrote and a lil php in there. My hopes were so high when I tried localhost and say my website working.

the site is here
http://ip-181-157.emich.edu/

I have asked this question before, people have suggested a blockage of outside calls to port 80 perhaps, only computers within my schools network can view. I'm not totally sure.

Any help here would be greatly appreciated.

I cannot connect to it right now; but what is the "problem"?

I don't know friend. I'm trying to figure out why people outside my university's network cannot view. Because my suitemates comp can view my site, also my roomates, and my trainer, for my sport(wrestling) so I'm not sure why this doesn't work!? Very confused.

If you're hosting the site inside a school network, it's very likely that they have a firewall up to prevent outside access. If you can find a port that is open (I think this is unlikely) you could try configuring apache to listen on that port instead, and maybe use a port 80 redirection such as no-ip.com or dyndns.org offer. My guess is that you won't be able to get access though, in which case you'll need to set up the site externally.

Of course, you could always try speaking to the network admins, ask them what ports are open and if they could add one for you.

Two issues: Find out from the isp who has the domain registered if they have registered ip-181-157.emich.edu. As an example, you have abc.martha.smith registered to 167.X.X.X and now want to have folks hit abc.martha.smith/dave/. Then this must be entered into the records for that registered namespace that the isp has control.
Second issue: If the above is open to the Internet, and assuming whoever controls the firewall has allowed port 80 traffic to your server, make sure the server has iptables set correctly to allow said traffic.

There are numerous variables to how internal customers and external customers route to say, an Apache webserver. You also need to ensure your httpd.conf file has the correct entry for the servername, ip address and your default index.htm , index.html, index.php or whatever resource you are using for your content.

Hope this helps.

Thanks for the help. After this post I later found that port 80 is indeed blocked by my university. I can only host this for ips located on my unviversity network. I do not have a host but instead run the server completely myself with my linux box, I have it configured for everything I need, IP tables is enabled on my machine, I will check my HTTPD conf and when I get home, on my internet hopefully my ISP will allow port 80 to be open :-)


Thanks for the assistance I appreciate it.